NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY FOUR.
June25
Olympia Le-Tan, a French company specialising in unique handbags and minaudières (their current collection You Can’t Judge a Book By It’s Cover features clutches posing as literary classics), has teamed up with Spike Jonze (who seems to be prolific at the moment) and Simon Cahn to produce a stop motion short, created entirely out of felt. This behind-the-scenes teaser has me pretty excited.
NUMBER THIRTY EIGHT.
December06
Just got home from finally seeing it… my friend and I wore our Max suits which we hand-made. I was a boy pretending to be a boy pretending to be a wolf pretending to be a king.
The film is a triumph; both a testament to Maurice Sendak’s timeless tale and to Spike Jonze’s vision. I can only imagine the hours spent labouring over this project. No wonder it has taken four years for the dream to be realised. I’m glad they were allowed to take their time and get it right.
All is love.
NUMBER TWENTY THREE.
October13
So up til now, I’ve resisted joining the hype bandwagon that has surrounded the (arduous) lead up to the release of Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are. Part of me has always feared that even if the major studios surrendered and let Spike have his version, his way, the movie was going to drown in it’s own hipster anticipation.
However, with the film hitting cinemas in the US on Friday, I have to say that I do have a quiet thrill when I think about the silver screen adaptation of one of my favourite childhood stories. Everything I have seen thus far, from early leaked stills, to the film’s official website, to the pop-up store, has been lush, haunting, and most importantly, echoes true to Maurice Sendak’s nine-sentence written tale.
Fingers crossed, Max’s voyage through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things are translates into a classic piece of cinema.
THERE’S ONE IN ALL OF US
